Monday, October 1

I found those tombs in the tiny Ter Navolging graveyard in Scheveningen. I was struck by the fact that I had never seen any tombs like them before. They just look like a normal small garden where you would grow some strawberries...looking carefully, you will notice the very small black tablets where the names are written. At the same time, by being so simple, they give such a feeling of tranquillity.

Hi ,Well I must say, I am Dutch, but this? This I've never seen either, my dad is burried in Leidschendam, on another graveyard, but this seems to bee more graves in one?Like a familygrave, but I am not sure. Do you know ?

As far as I can remember, the markers all relate to people that have passed away in the last 30 years, and who are not family-related. As R&R in the Netherlands suggested, I think they relate to cremated people, but I am not sure. In this very smaal and old cementary (I later read that this is the first cementary build in the Netherlands outside a church) some 230 years ago, you can also find some bigger markers that have been recently placed in rememberance of people that were initially buried here, but whose graves had been displaced.